Revised Waste Framework Directive (EU) 2025/1892
Mandatory extended producer responsibility for textiles across the EU
What the revision introduces
Directive (EU) 2025/1892 of 10 September 2025 amends Directive 2008/98/EC on waste and entered into force on 16 October 2025. Its central change for the textile sector is mandatory extended producer responsibility (EPR) for textiles.
Three dates set the schedule: Member States must transpose by 17 June 2027, textile EPR schemes become mandatory by April 2028, and micro-enterprises (under 10 staff and up to EUR 2M turnover) get one additional year — to 17 April 2029.
What does the revised Waste Framework Directive mean for your digital product passport?
Textile EPR fees are eco-modulated: recyclability, recycled content, durability, repairability, chemicals and fibre blends set the rate. Those are the same fields a textile passport carries. A producer who already holds them for the passport has the evidence for a lower fee. One who does not pays the highest-case rate.
DigitalProductPassport by WIARA has a ready textile template for those fields, and every publish creates a new version. Schemes and fees are set nationally, so manufacturers selling into several Member States deal with several schemes. Open a demo passport, see what a passport costs, or check whether your product needs one.
Four things that change for manufacturers and importers
What textile EPR means
What is settled and what is not
Settled at EU level
The obligation itself, the transposition deadline of 17 June 2027, the April 2028 date for schemes to be mandatory, the micro-enterprise deferral to 17 April 2029, and the principle that fees are eco-modulated.
Set nationally
Fee levels, the exact eco-modulation factors and their weighting, the available discharge routes and the registration mechanics are all national. A producer selling into several Member States will face several schemes, not one.
Why the design decisions come first
Eco-modulation means the fee is decided by how the product is made, long before it is placed on the market. Material choices, fibre blends and separability set the rate — and they are fixed at design stage, not at the point of payment.
Publish this passport with DigitalProductPassport by WIARA
The revised Waste Framework Directive puts textile EPR schemes on a timetable, and the data those schemes want per product overlaps almost entirely with the passport.
DigitalProductPassport by WIARA is a cloud platform built by WIARA, a software company. You enter the product data once; the platform publishes a passport page with a permanent QR code and a GS1 Digital Link URL, in all 24 official EU languages, keeping public, professional and authority fields apart. ESPR and CPR templates come ready made.
The free plan covers 3 passports in total. What the platform does is set out on the product page, and the plans and their limits are on pricing.
Textile EPR and the Digital Product Passport
Frequently asked questions
Under 10 staff and up to EUR 2M turnover gets one additional year — to 17 April 2029. That is a deferral, not an exemption.
That is eco-modulation. Recyclability, recycled content, durability and repairability, cleaner processes, hazardous chemicals and mixed composition drive the rate. Blended fibres and non-separable constructions raise it.
Directly. The eco-modulation factors are the same data the DPP is built to carry: composition, recycled content, repairability, chemicals used. A company already collecting them for the passport holds the evidence for a lower fee. A company that is not pays the highest-case rate, because it cannot demonstrate otherwise.
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Solutions
DPP for Textiles
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Manufacturers create and maintain DPP, prove compliance and sustainability, earn trust and improve their processes.
DPP for Retailers and Service Centres
DPP simplifies warranties, repairs and product tracking. Retailers and service centres receive accurate information for higher quality service.
